Dealing with rejection

I think that rejection is something that we all have to face some time in our life whether we are the most popular kid in school or a nerd....

At school I wasn't really popular and then again I wasn't a nerd... yet I never liked any of the guys at my school, except one. His name was Matt. He was in one of my classes, he sat with our group at lunch, he caught my bus, and then my train and he was sooo nice.

I never thought that Matt would ever be interested in me so I secretly admired him for about two years until I decided that I liked him and that I was going to ask him out. So one day in class I did. I was expecting his eyes to meet mine and for him to tell me that he felt the same way and for us to run off into the sunset together. But that was not what happened... He cracked up laughing in front of the whole class and turned to me and asked me if I was serious. I nodded and the laughter immediately stopped. I think he was embarrassed because he got up and swapped desks. And for the rest of the lesson I sat there staring into space asking myself all these questions like: aren't I pretty enough? Why doesn't he like me? What did I do wrong?....

I did the traditional thing that night and cried, watched pretty woman and ate chocolate. But in the end what helped me cope with matt rejecting me was when I realized that there was nothing wrong with me, I am a beautiful person, and I didn't do anything wrong... Matt just wasn't attracted to me in that way and I see it now as his loss.

I know it may sound corny and all but there are plenty of fish in the sea. Some people have great methods of coping with rejection but mine is a bucket of ice cream, a sad love movie and knowing that I am beautiful just the way I am regardless of what some boy thinks.